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An American citizen who faces caning in Singapore after overstaying his tourist visa has also been charged with fraud, the AP reports. The former Florida State football player was already at risk of being the first American to be caned in Singapore since 1994. Now he’s been slapped with charges of tricking an Australian man into paying him more than $16,000.

Kamari Charlton traveled to Singapore to get medical treatment for his wife, who was on a medical visa while her husband was on a shorter tourist visa, AOL News reports; he was nabbed by authorities at the airport last month having overstayed his visa by 169 days. Now authorities say he made phone calls to an Australian man, warning him that his family needed cash for a medical emergency. On top of all that, Charlton is under investigation for money laundering. Click here for more.

Haha! Don't go to other countries and think you can break their laws because you're an American.

Your-Average-Joe

Oct 22, 2010 2:08 PM CDT

Now image if the US local, county, state and federal officials used the same caning procedure to enforce our immigration laws instead of offering jobs! I get sick of some talking head or congress person on the news channel telling us how impossible it is to round up some millions of illegals in this country. I guarantee it would only take a few well publicized examples before there would be a mass exodus of illegals from the US back to their home country's!

winterfairy

Oct 22, 2010 11:36 AM CDT

he went to Singapore thinking he could play the entitled special person he plays in America and the people in Singapore would be as stupid and lazy as the government bureaucrats here.